Cooperage manufacturing · Kentucky

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel

Louisville, KY · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cooperage manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel: 5.1 TCR = 153% of Cooperage manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel safety composite

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2023

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #10/26
  • PHOTO 7153_16739
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7153_16739 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kentucky Bourbon Barrel in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Kentucky Bourbon Barrel averages 5.1 TCR (153% of the Cooperage manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=11 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kentucky Bourbon Barrel falls in its industry

952 Cooperage manufacturing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 26 Cooperage manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel (18 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kentucky Bourbon Barrel
Kentucky Bourbon Barrel (18 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel has fewer employees than the Cooperage manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2021 11.0 5.5 2 0 0
2020 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · KY · Louisville

952 Cooperage manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 7153_16739 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amware Pallet Services - Chester 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Propak - Tulsa, OK 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TransPak - DIV 147 Round Rock 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mitchell Construction 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbine Construction Company, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 850 Tech Drive 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Systems, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Texas Health Huguley Hospital 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Ssm St Mary Hospital Es 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AMC of Wisconsin Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MCRT Odessa 2 Tenant LLC 5.1 TCR

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.